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"Wait," said I, "the advantage usually lies with the last

thrower, it would be fairer to you e to toss for it"

"No," answered Black George, ot th' 'ammer, and I'll throw first"

Now, as probably every one knows, it is one thing to swing a

sledge-hammer in the ordinary way but quite another to throw it

any distance, for there is required, beside the bodily strength,

a certain ae, without which a man is necessarily

handicapped Thus, despite uine of the result

Black George took a fresh grip upon the ha it once, twice, thrice--and let it

go

With a shout, Job and two or three others ran down the road to

out the

distance

"Fifty-nine!" they announced

"Can 'ee beat that?" inquired Black George co up the ha the shaft fir it swifter and swifter, gaining greater

irasp